Camden Cracks Down on Crafty Cross-promotion
Okay, maybe I made the header sound overly dramatic for the sake of alliteration, but this is an interesting bit we grabbed off the wire today. The Camden Council in North London has served anti-social behavior orders to three top advertising executives at Sony and BMG today -- a charge that could carry up to five years in prison. Why? For illegally flyposting on buildings, pillars, and statues around London. Apparantly the Council couldn't take staring at one more excessive poster of that Darkness bloke, eh? From what we understand it, the behavior order is similar to a "cease-and-desist" over here -- either flyposting stops... or the major label marketing people find themselves in the slammer for five years (a pretty high price to pay for plastering George Michael's head onto a phone pole.) The whole story can be read in the current issue of The Telegraph.